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Capital Punishment The Argument Against the Death Penalty The feeling of the condemned man was indescribable as he was minutes away from being executed by an unjust decision The verdict of his case was guilty on the grounds of circumstantial evidence When in all reality he was guilty because he was black poor and socially unacceptable His case never stood a chance it was over before it started The judge and jury sentence the man to die in the electric chair The condemned man sat in the chair sweating profusely waiting for a someone to wake him from this nightmare A certain death awaited this young mans future He could not believe that a country like ours upheld a system of such unfairness Then as he was executed he shouted his last plea I am innocent please wait How can this innocent man be put to death in a system based on fairness and a theory of innocent until proven guilty There have been circumstances such as this that were said to be true This is one example why capital punishment should be abolished in our country Or should it Is capital punishment fair and based on equality Does it cost less than other alternatives Is it considered cruel and unusual punishment And does the presence of the death penalty deter crime These are questions that need to be answered to determine whether capital punishment should be abolished or maintained in our society To start capital punishment is a racist and unfair solution for the criminals in our system It discriminates toward individuals on the basis of their race wealth or social standing in society It is not right to kill nineteen men a year out of hundreds and hundreds of convicted murderers These men are not being killed because they committed murder They are being killed because they are poor black ugly or all of these things As capital punishment becomes less and

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